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The editor-in-chief of the weekly NIN, Milan Ćulibrk, said that the monument to Stefan Nemanja will cost more than ten million euros, when the value of the imported parts of the monument includes the prices of the conceptual design, the artists who worked on it and the workers who assembled it.
Photo: BetaHe also considers that shaming all those who oppose the construction of the monument in this way is an attempt to avoid discussion about the project.
Ćulibrk, as a guest on Print of the Week, stated that “someone” will be embarrassed when the price of the project is known, adding that the government therefore keeps the monument’s construction costs classified.
“It is not my job to like (that project) or not, but to criticize (that way of working). We must not be ashamed, we must insist that we all do our work, and the independent bodies, the prosecution, the judiciary,” said Zulibrk .
He added that, among other things, it is not known whether all the citizens of Serbia paid for the monument or only Belgrade, and that the city authorities will lose the dispute and pay fines to the office of the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance for not publishing. that information.
“It is ironic that citizens are paying those fines again. We are not ashamed to ask how much it cost, nor is it a shame to ask how much respirators, vaccines, covid hospitals cost, how much the Russian planes that we received as gifts were paid.” In this country, the situation will normalize when citizens realize that they must know how the state disposes of their money, “said Ćulibrk.
On accusations that he is part of the “criminal organization that is preparing the assassination” of President Aleksandar Vučić, Ćulibrk said that such accusations must be proven or publicly announced as fake news.
“These messages show what kind of state the government would like,” Zulibrk believes.
Biljana Djordjevic, assistant professor at the Faculty of Political Science and activist of the “Let’s not drown Belgrade” initiative, that critics of the government should not allow themselves to behave like them.
He added that citizens are “very concerned” about how much all state projects cost, whether they like it or not.
“Certainly there are other more useful places where (that) money could be directed, to raise the quality of life of citizens. “I think there is no greater patriotism than helping people who are currently living (worse),” he said.
Djordjevic believes that those with the greatest power in society bear the greatest responsibility, as well as that crisis personnel “did not react more acutely to the current situation much earlier.”
“I understand their position, that they thought they would be in a position to handle the pandemic more responsibly, but there were plenty of opportunities to react. (Epidemiologist Predrag) When asked ‘why the president didn’t wear a mask,’ Kon replied ‘he is the president ‘, which is not the answer for me. “(The president) is a person who has authority, who has the power to send a message of responsibility, and the most prominent member of the professional staff has not shown responsibility” believes Djordjevic.
Dejan Atanackovic, visual artist and writer, assessed that the government representatives are acting “like a shameless interest group”, so he has a feeling of “transfer of shame”.
“I am ashamed of who is in charge of our country, how the youth of the 90s are returning. I feel deeply ashamed that we allow it. “But that shame represents a barrier between us and them,” Atanackovic said.
He also added that he asked the city authorities for information about the price of the monument to be erected in Plaza Sava and that the Commissioner for Information of Public Importance issued a decision ordering the city authorities to provide him with everything they knew about the project at the time of submission. required.
This monument serves to make citizens feel less citizens, to reduce themselves to subjects, to tell them that their price does not concern them. “It is not just an aesthetic problem,” he said.
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